Notice the different MINT fabric? It doesn't look too bad. I will be looking for another MINT fabric this week at Rosie's since there isn't enough to cover requirements. Winterberry is looking better after each Block 1 is completed.
Today's post brought me the five pinks I ordered from Shabby Fabrics. I will be able to use three of them. The other two will be added to my stash as they are too deep a pink.
Nothing changes my stash this week in the used category. I did find a couple more minks and the last fabric arrived for Winterberry. I am getting closer to completions on several projects. It is looking like it will hit the 2026 count.
Used this week: 0 yards
Used YTD: 276 yards
Purchased this week: 2.25 yards
Purchased YTD: 147.25 yards
Net used in 2025: 128.75 yards
Until next time.
Things are looking more on the bright side. Outdoor Christmas lights are being readied for hanging. My annual Christmas letter needs composing too. Hope all at your home is merry and bright!
I used all scraps for Block 2 with the exception of the cream floral. Love the center block...look close to understand why.
I am still working on the cutting of Part 3, Lupine & Laughter, Bonnie Hunter's Winter Mystery. I figured that I might as well do the smallest and largest HSTs first since they both used pink/neutral fabrics. Not sure how far I will get because my pinks are quickly disappearing in the units. The last HSTs to cut will be pink/purple. Pinks have shipped!
Received notice today that Installment 5 of Home for the Holly Days is running a bit late. I have already stitched the installment with the abundant fabric not used from previous installment. I am not sure I can get through Installment 6, but certainly I will try once Lupine & Laughter is cut and sewn.
Part 3 of Lupine & Laughter is well on its way. The cutting will take sometime as there are lots of HST parts in three sizes to be prepared.
These are the neutrals that are needing a pink strip. I'm real low on pinks sadly.
I shopped at Rosie's and only came home with two pinks. Two is just not enough so I did some online shopping at Shabby Fabrics. Sure hope that some of the half yard cuts of Carnation work out to be the color I am after.
This green came home too. It will be used along with the other dark greens for the Winterberry project.
For this week nothing to report as used, but purchased there is a change. I have more to share tomorrow so make sure you check out my Design Wall Monday post.
Used this week: 0 yards
Used YTD: 276 yards
Purchased this week: 6.5 yards
Purchased YTD: 145 yards
Net used in 2025: 131 yards
Until next time.
Although I have no photos to share now, Winterberry is coming along in the cutting process. I missed needing one more of the Make it Merry line of fabrics. Shabby Fabrics had it and I will soon have it for Block 1 =^.^= In the meantime I am putting together Block 2.
Have a great Wednesday.
Hope to get done with all the flying geese by Wednesday. There will be pink geese with neutral wings and neutral geese with purple wings. A combined total of 144 flying geese. My featherweight is all set to "fly".
Happy December =^.^=
This is the first of three fabrics I located at Suzie Q Quilts for my Winterberry project.
For stash counts this last day of November...
Used this week: 0 yards
Used YTD: 276 yards
Purchased this week: 3 yards
Purchased YTD: 138.5 yards
Net used in 2025: 137.5 yards
Until next time.
These pieces are yet to be trimmed up. There was a lot of cutting and sewing with Month 5.
Next up after Month 5 is the first week of Lupine & Laughter. Bonnie Hunter's Winter Mystery for 2025/2026. I have the pieces all cut out and at the ready as time allows. Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving. I have sweet potatoes baking in preparation for a pie that I will be making. There is cinnamon in the pie ingredients so I am expecting our home to smell heavenily =^.^=
Finished all but the label! Kluster comes from the 2025 Liberty Box. The pattern is called Gleaming by Fat Quarter Shop. This is one of my 2025 UFOs.
I didn't get in any sewing today. I did cut and cut and cut =^.^= There was lots of digging through stash to get the different four of these hour glass units. 24 sets of matching four. Somewhere along the way I was gifted a Honey Bun roll. I am pretty certain it came from my mom. Anyway it had lots of pink variations in the strips. It was perfect to capture the carnation pink. Neutrals and ice blues were not a problem either for now. There is still more yardage if the need for the pink or blue comes back into play.
Home for the Holly Days Month 5 waits me having the time to sit down to my featherweight. I am ahead of the schedule so no big deal.
Happy Monday.
Let me start with the first stitching since Wednesday's post. This is the last of the items for the donation for Sunshine Quilt Guild's Summers Past Farms event in early December. These microwave popcorn bags make a total of 12 donated. Of course this adds to what has also been donated; four Christmas table runners and four small Halloween wall hangings.
Except for shuffleing these units around Month 5 of Home for the Holly Days has not been stitched. I do hope to get to these today or sometime early this week. I am ahead by a month due to all the extra fabric that is being sent every month.
Friday I spent the morning at Rosie's auditioning scraps that will be used to make Winterberry. I decided I wanted to have three of the fabrics in the Make it Merry collection. All three were ordered from two different vendors. The cut units are the first of the blocks all cut to size and waiting for the shippments to arrive.
Pam brought all the puppy blocks that will go into the possible donation to Raddys Childrens Hospital Canine Therapy Program. Two of the light background kits have yet to be returned (made or not). These 20 should make for a good size quilt. (Arrangement of blocks yet to be finalized.)
Nothing really tips the stash count this week. Head back this way tomorrow to see the finish of Kluster. A 2025 UFO from this year's Liberty Box.
Used this week: 0 yards
Used YTD: 276 yards
Purchased this week: 0 yards
Purchased YTD: 135.5 yards
Net used in 2025: 140.5 yards
Until next time=^.^=
Here are all four. This installment has one also making sashing. There are two different sashing designs.
I also pulled enough fabric for Month 5 of Home for the Holly Days. I'll be preparing the units that need vertical lines next. I still have lots of fabric to try cutting Month 6 out once Month 5 is stitched.
That's it for this Wednesday.